Oh no. He strikes again… it’s not happening today.
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Noooooooooooooo!!
Tomorrow? 
tfw
[joking] Ha! I can see you through Reese. You’re giving false dates just so you can grind some more likes! [/joking]
Anyways, what will be the new date?
Looking like maybe next week.
It may seem like a simple-ish change, but it’s actually very risky. Account creation is the the front door to ROBLOX. We can’t mess it up.
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That’s what site tests are for
Honestly, it doesn’t matter. I don’t see how this could break anything, you’re just doing string equivalency. The string should be able to safely be anything. I don’t know what DB ROBLOX uses, but if it’s MySQL-like it should be fine.
Murphy’s law was just invoked…
Surely the web team knows what they’re doing when they postpone a feature like this, they have access to the code, just gotta be patient.
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Web team isn’t the issue, they don’t make those decisions.
I work in IT support, the only reason my job is needed, is because people rushed development.
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That’s definitely not the only one, but I’d say that’s a large contributing factor towards your job. If it would take me, a single developer, 20 minutes, it’d probably take them an hour, tops, to have this tested and ready to go into production.
They are also a large corporation with corporate approval processes.
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Doesn’t matter, technical side of this would be done really quickly.
I’m wondering what you are trying to prove with statements like that though? They are with more people with actual experience in the company, they have a large code base to consider and test, and the stakes are much higher than you implementing underscores in usernames on your own much smaller, much simpler website… You can’t possibly think that you can spend the same amount of time for such a major system when several trained and experienced engineers can’t?
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I never said anything about implementing underscores in usernames “in [my] own much smaller, much simpler website”
More than likely, the engineers would finish it just as quickly.
Then can you explain what you meant to say? If you don’t have experience with that thing specifically, why do you say 20 minutes? Do you know the code size that is to be considered, do you know what testing methods they use?
It probably takes about that time just to run the automated unit/integration/system testing for the entire backend.
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@buildthomas I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but this isn’t something that’s very difficult. If they centralize their username validity code. If it’s different on signup and on username changes, then it might be an issue. Although, honestly, I doubt that’s a mistake any competent engineer would make.
Woops I posted on my alt. ~Reese
@Programatic If they have internships for the web team some time, I highly recommend that you consider applying for them if you have the prerequisites and are old enough. I think it could be very educational for you and on top of that web development and ROBLOX seem to be things that you are interested in a lot. Who knows, maybe you’ll teach them some tricks or the other way around. 
@FoxCrab This is a website change, so it shouldn’t effect iOS, Android or xbox. As far as I know, you can’t create accounts from those platforms, or change usernames there.
I understand that this is your decision, but I must protest the effects you’re talking about.
For now, I guess it’s just another feature Coming Soon™.